Robots for science: Check out Kamen’s cool competition IF YOU SEE an army of robots in downtown Manchester today and Saturday, don't panic, it's not a Steven Spielberg fantasy come horribly to life. It's a Dean Kamen fantasy come to life, which is much better.
A young boy that will be able to help robots There is this 8 years old boy in South Korea who is a genius in maths and physics, he was born in 1997 and for sure he will be a great help for the future of robots!
Billings wins robotics challenge When Billings first entered the robotics competition two years ago, the school finished dead last.
"It was a shock to us just to see this and it was difficult to do," recalls Billings science teacher Brian Visser. "But the kids weren't despondent; they were just happy to be part of it."
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RI-MAN : a robot to lift and carry people! The bio-mimetic control research center of RIKEN is promoting basic research on the flexible and dynamic motor functions of biological systems.
The goal is to create advanced engineering systems such as a soft human interactive robot.
The robot developed here is named RI-MAN. RI-MAN exhibits the skill and ability to realize human care and welfare tasks. RI-MAN will become an invaluable partner robot.
* Motor Systems Control Theory Laboratory
Yuichi KOBAYASHI
Project Leaders
* Zhiwei LUO, Toshiharu MUKAI, Shigeyuki HOSOE
Robotic age poses ethical dilemma No sexy wife robot for South Korea moral censors!
ASIMOV'S LAWS OF ROBOTICS
A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law
Sexy Actroid greets people in four languages! "ACTROID", a female-type reception
robot that has been designed as an "Android receptionist bearing a striking resemblance to a woman with a good command of four languages" with the objective of promoting a "System Development toward Practical Use" under the NEDO "2004 Next-Generation Robot Commercialization Project".
